William Butler Duncan II (1853 – March 30, 1912) aka Butler Duncan was a New York City banker.
His father was William Butler Duncan I of Scotland. He became a banker in New York City and then was the President and later the Chairman of the Board of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad from 1874 until his death in 1912.
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“The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes. He is paid for this business of leading a stricter life than other people. It is his raison d’être.... This is why the clergyman is so often called a “vicar”Mhe being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)